Word: lawyerly
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...apply for 102 entry-level sales or management positions. Result: though they presented equal credentials, says AARP, the older applicants received less favorable responses 41.2% of the time. Three-quarters of those responses occurred before the older applicants had even been granted an interview. Sally Dunaway, an AARP lawyer, says bias is hurting "people at younger and younger ages. It used to be 65. Now it is 55, 48 or even...
...lower courts too "there has been a vast increase in the number of summary judgments against plaintiffs" alleging age discrimination, says Eric Nelson, a New York attorney specializing in employment law. Chicago lawyer Taren adds that some courts have even interpreted employer comments such as, "This company is looking for young blood," or, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," to be innocent remarks rather than evidence of serious bias. The upshot is that if an age-discrimination case is to succeed, an employer virtually has to tell a worker in so many words, "We don't want...
...jobs, though, are hardly what many older workers would want on a permanent basis. Lawyer McElyea, for example, got a part-time job through Kelly doing legal work for a telemarketer on an hourly basis with no benefits. It was O.K. as a stop-gap, he says, but "a real dead...
Flash forward 15 months. This week Strohmeyer goes on trial in Las Vegas for the murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of Sherrice Iverson. If convicted, he faces a possible death sentence, but his lawyer, Leslie Abramson, claims his confession was extracted by police while he was drugged. His friend Cash, now 19 and an aspiring nuclear engineer in his sophomore year at Berkeley, is not charged with anything, but he faces a trial of another kind, from angry Californians. The tale of the bad Samaritan has touched a nerve...
Emerging from Clinton's testimony, his lawyer David Kendall added to the blather about "closure" and "getting this all behind us." It might not be such a good idea to get this all behind us until we understand what is in front of us. The President is Elmer Gantry, but we have always known that. Now the country-congregation has to decide something about itself. The question of impeachment aside, do we condemn or not condemn? Is it possible to admire an ankle and be pastor to a moral nation too? Clinton's problem may be, as he says, private...